445: $80,000 in Etsy Sales: How to Grow from Here? [Side Hustle Coaching]
The Side Hustle Show
Nick Loper
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
With a full-time job, a baby at home, and a thriving side hustle, Troy Parker was becoming a master juggler.
He was excited about the growth of his Etsy shop, Goober Prints, but was beginning to reach the ceiling of his own capacity.
Troy specializes in fun, quirky, customizable direct-to-garment printing. Goober Prints had a breakout year in 2020, jumping to $80,000 in total sales — up from about $10,000 in 2019.
Could it become his full-time focus? Is it possible to scale sales without sacrificing even more sleep?
I reached out to Side Hustle Show alum and Etsy growth pro Melissa MacDonald, because I knew she'd have some great ideas for Troy.
And she didn't disappoint!
Tune in to check out our full conversation.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up? What's up Nick? Oh, Loper here. Welcome to the side hustle show because you're nine to five may make you a living |
| 0:05.4 | But you're five to nine makes you alive |
| 0:08.1 | We've got a little coaching series going on this month featuring as some listeners who are already seeing some |
| 0:13.7 | Pretty healthy traction with their businesses, but are still looking for ways to grow expand optimize all that fun stuff |
| 0:20.5 | Today you're gonna meet Troy Parker who runs an Etsy shop called Goober prints direct to garment printing |
| 0:27.7 | Don't pretty well with that Troy welcome to the show Nick. Thanks for having me on mate. I'm a big fan of the show |
| 0:34.0 | my court wind of it late last year early this year and I |
| 0:37.9 | Love here and all of the side hustles from you know mobile homes to doll houses to Etsy shop and everything |
| 0:45.1 | It's awesome. Well, thanks so much for tuning in happy to have you in the other corner to help talk through some |
| 0:52.2 | Ideas and expansion opportunities for Troy is for her second side hustle show appearance from a sweet spot marketing that CA |
| 1:01.2 | It's Melissa Mcdonald welcome back. Thanks Nick. Great to be here. You bet. So Troy |
| 1:06.1 | I'm gonna have you kick us off here with kind of the |
| 1:08.8 | Baseline of the business today in terms of sales revenue time required give us a sense for how far you've come so far |
| 1:16.6 | I've always loved t-shirt and a power printing so I thought why not open up |
| 1:20.9 | my Etsy page and |
| 1:22.9 | Do some of power printing so |
| 1:24.8 | Opened that up in February of 2019 didn't really have an idea of how it was gonna go |
| 1:31.0 | I was kind of in the mindset, you know, if I make an extra hundred bucks a week, then that's great |
| 1:36.3 | That's where I kind of thought I would be |
| 1:38.6 | First year sales was around ten thousand dollars, which was still more than I thought |
| 1:44.5 | I was quite happy with that. I'd made 300 sales in that first year and |
| 1:49.8 | Then the second year, which was 2020, you know, I just put a lot more time into it and then it up getting just over |
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